10 Facts About The Inquirer

The Inquirer was a British technology tabloid website founded by Mike Magee after his departure from The Register in 2001.

The Inquirer ceased publishing on 19 December 2019, partly due to declining digital advertising revenues.

In 2006 The Inquirer reported laptop battery problems that affected Dell, Sony and Apple as of September 2006, with rumours of problems at Toshiba and Lenovo.

In June 2006, The Inquirer published photographs of a Dell notebook PC bursting into flames at a conference in Japan; The New York Times reprinted The Inquirer's photographs.

The Inquirer was the first publication to report Dell's subsequent decision to recall faulty batteries, according to BusinessWeek.

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The Inquirer's successful reporting of the story relied on information supplied by readers and later by a confidential source at Dell.

In July 2006, The Inquirer posted images to show cheating by NVIDIA Windows device drivers in Rydermark 2006.

The Inquirer denied any wrongdoing and quoted the maker of Rydermark calling the allegations against them "irresponsible".

About 8 months after the original Rydermark article, The Inquirer ran another article claiming that Rydermark was still being developed, but was near release.

On 3 October 2014, The Inquirer reported on the privacy policy for the Technical Preview the upcoming Microsoft Windows 10 operating system.